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fs: update outdated documentation about i_mutex lock.

Message ID e1d7ad05-5ffd-dd20-6e29-54c8b0b51593@ugent.be (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fs: update outdated documentation about i_mutex lock. | expand

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Niels Dossche Feb. 12, 2022, 2:53 p.m. UTC 
This field was renamed from i_mutex to i_rwsem and now resides in d_inode.

Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@ugent.be>
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 fs/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3f1829b3ab5b..abf454f12365 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2692,7 +2692,7 @@  static int lookup_one_common(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
  * Note that this routine is purely a helper for filesystem usage and should
  * not be called by generic code.
  *
- * The caller must hold base->i_mutex.
+ * The caller must hold base->d_inode->i_rwsem.
  */
 struct dentry *try_lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len)
 {